African Activist Archive

Mailing including a cover letter, ACTION ALERT! "Republican House Leadership to Eliminate Africa Subcommittee," REPORT ON ACAS AT ASA, and MEMBERSHIP RENEWAL FORM. More than 50 people attended the ACAS annual meeting at the Toronto ASA. Leaders of the House of Representatives are preparing again to eliminate the House Africa Subcommittee. The Action Alert asks people to write incoming Speaker Newt Gingrich and incoming Chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Benjamin Gilman, to appeal for the continuing importance of a separate subcommittee on Africa. Two items about ACAS to highlight: (1) the need for a Bulletin editor and membership secretary; and (2) our desire to exploit the information highway by collecting e-mail address for all members who have them. The appeal for money made by Treasurer Steve Rubert is equally important. As an added benefit to members, we have made an arrangement for a reduced-cost renewal matched to a reduced-cost subscription to the Review of African Political Economy. The report says a major focus of the meeting at ASA this year was the crisis in Rwanda and the alternatives it posed for progressive Africa scholars. Several people at the ACAS meeting suggested ACAS should continue the work begun this year of lobbying U.S. officials for more aggressive action. The mailing discusses NSEP (National Security Education Program), the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), ASA (African Studies Association), the Association of Africa Studies Programs, challenges posed by the post-Cold War world order, Boren/NSEP Scholarship Campaign, crisis areas of Liberia, Sudan and Nigeria, John Saul, Janice McLauglin, Jim Cason, Prexy Nesbitt, the World Bank, academic freedom, Adotei Akwei, Amnesty International, and human rights.

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